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Yesterday http://drupal.org/node/1597730 was added as an initiative to get the majority of the File Entity (http://drupal.org/project/file_entity) module into Drupal 8 Core.

This is a large task and there is still a lot of work needed between now and the Drupal 8 feature Freeze on December 1st.

At the Drupal Dev Days in Barcelona next month there will be a Media sprint (http://barcelona2012.drupaldays.org/drupal-media-initiative-sprint). The intention is to use this opportunity not only to do a lot of coding, but also work on and create a roadmap for what we need to do to get File Entity into core.

We will need a lot of help and resources, not just coders, to make this happen. If you are interested to help out in any form, you find Dave, me and others working on this most of the time in the #drupal-media IRC channel.

Also, today (Thurdays 24th) we have our 10th bi-weekly Media Initiative IRC meeting (http://groups.drupal.org/node/232333) starting at 9pm GMT/UTC. Your most welcome to join us to help bring an awesome file management solution to Drupal.

• Media

The short story

Come and help us perfect and implement the hot new mobile interface design in Drupal 8. Try the prototype on your phone. Also, go to the issue queue.

The long story

Over the past six months we've been working on designing the experience of getting to where you want within Drupal's admin interface.

I originally identified this as top on the list of priorities for the Mobile UX because it's so important. We had a great feedback loop going at the regular mobile and usability meetings and I iterated through a static HTML prototype.

Here are some of the cool solutions that came out of this process:

A redesigned toolbar

It was obvious pretty early on that we couldn't show all the menu items at once, we need some method of revealing them. What became really interesting was the thoughts on what else we could use the rest of the toolbar space for. The prototype contains toolbar buttons for global functions like search; and contextual functions like filter, sort, and delete.

See the detailed design and implementation issue: Redesign Administration Toolbar for Small Screens and Touch Screens

A sliding navigation

Animated transitions between pages is more than just sugar on top. It maintains an association between pages. This has become ubiquitous on touch devices. The prototype took it further by adding a full screen swipe gesture to move back up the navigation tree.

I also knocked together a very rough second prototype that maximizes touch gestures to create a layered card metaphor.

See the detailed design and implementation issue:
Implement sliding navigation for touch screen devices.

Global search

A nice, friendly, easy to use navigation tree is great but some users want to get around first. We don't want newbie friendly interface to hold back power users. A global search function works like a teleport, allowing users who know what they want to get there quickly. A proof of concept exists on all pages of the prototype.

Create a detailed design and implementation issue

Other less existing things

• Tabs
• Pagers
• Tables
• Navigation lists

• Mobile User Experience & Design

Goal

The goal of the Drupal Ladder initiative is to get 1% of active users on drupal.org to contribute to Drupal core by 2014 by organizing "learn sprints" and "issue sprints" at Drupal User Group meetups, camps and conferences.

Ladder

"Drupal Ladder" is the new name for this initiative. It had previously been called "Learn Drupal," but this led to a lot of confusion: many people assumed that the goal was to help new users learn how to use Drupal, though the goal is actually to get more users to contribute to Drupal.

The new name better conveys this goal by referring to the Drupal Contribution Ladder, without being specific to it. In the future, this initiative (and the website) may well shift focus, but the paradigm of climbing a ladder of lessons will remain.

Get involved

We encourage Drupal community members at all levels to become involved in the initiative—there's something for everyone to do! Take part in the group discussions, join us in IRC at #drupal-ladder, or help build the Drupal Ladder installation profile by helping out in the issue queue. The best way to get involved is to take part in learn and issue sprints. If none are happening in your local user group, plan one! The Drupal Ladder site includes information on planning and running sprints.

• Drupal Ladder

En IB Connect llevamos años desarrollando y fabricando sistemas de conectividad eléctrica, voz, datos y multimedia para dar soluciones integrales a las necesidades de nuestros clientes.

I selected Angela "webchick" Byron as my co-maintainer for Drupal 7 back in DrupalCon Szeged in August 2008. Since then, together we shepherded efforts of 1,000 core contributors to create Drupal 7, got the release out the door in January of last year, and worked hard thereafter to stabilize Drupal 7, to the point that the number of Drupal 7 sites eclipsed the number of Drupal 6 sites earlier this year.

However, Angela's level of responsibility in the community has grown significantly in the past 3.5 years, and she wears many hats, from Drupal Association board member to code sprint planner to Drupal.org coordinator to evangelist to general community cat herder. We both felt that it was time to transition the role of Drupal 7 core co-maintainer off of her plate, in order to give her more time to focus on her other community roles.

When thinking about replacements for Angela, David Rothstein was at the top of my list. David was a key contributor to Drupal 7 and heavily involved in a wide range of issues throughout the code base. He was also on the Drupal Gardens team, developing against Drupal 7 while it was still in active development, and so has a very thorough and deep understanding of Drupal 7's internals. David is extremely conscientious and thorough in his reviews, and is incredibly calm and respectful in his communication style.

I'm thrilled to say that David accepted the invitation to join the core co-maintainer team, and will have time to work on managing Drupal 7 releases through community time provided by his current employer, Advomatic. David will not be committing to the Drupal 8 branch, but will be focused on guaranteeing the quality of Drupal 7.

Please join me in welcoming David to the core maintainer team!

Hufvudstadsbladet (abbr. Hbl) is the highest-circulation Swedish-language newspaper in Finland. Its headquarters are located in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The name of the newspaper translates approximately into "The Capital City Newspaper", hufvudstad (modern spelling huvudstad) being 19th century Swedish for capital.

Why Drupal was chosen:
http://www.drupalla.com is a free, community driven Q&A for Drupal developers and administrators. After considering the landscape of both proprietary and open-source solutions, Drupalla decided to use Drupal as a foundation for their community initiative. Drupal recognized Drupal to be offering:

a wealth of out of the box CMS and social networking features and functionality
the ability to scale for high usage sites

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Drupal.org and its sub-sites (api.drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, etc) will be going down for 20 minutes Monday, May 7, 5:00 PDT (May 8, 00:00 UTC). This maintenance window will be used to upgrade our single sign on system. Please follow the @drupal_infra twitter account for updates during the downtime and thanks for your patience!

Sites will remain functional for the majority of the scheduled downtime, but everyone will be logged out. You may not be able to log into sub-sites for a few minutes as the update is rolled out.

Soho Limited is involved in providing commercial and residential property services within the central London area.
The site required us to redesign soho limited's brand identity with the intention of using the brand image in further areas than just the website.
The website is a drupal built website with simplistic layout and specially commissioned photography. The easy-to-use CMS means that Soho Ltd can easily update their news section to inform house hunters as to new properties.

The Media Student's Book is a leading textbook used by many undergraduates within the UK. It is designed to compliment the material within the book to enhance the student's learning. Because of it's subject, it was requested and important to the client that the website not only covered the extent of material within the textbook but showcased the various multimedia sources that are available today.

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Drupal 7.14 is now available, which contains bug fixes as well as fixes for security vulnerabilities from Drupal 7.13.

Drupal 6.26, which fixes known bugs (no security issues) is also available for download.

Download Drupal 7.14
Download Drupal 6.26

Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 7.x release series, consult the Drupal 7.0 release announcement, more information on the 6.x releases can be found in the Drupal 6.0 release announcement. Drupal 5 is no longer maintained, upgrading to Drupal 7 is recommended.

Security information

We have a security announcement mailing list, a history of all security advisories, and an RSS feed with the most recent security advisories. We strongly advise Drupal administrators to sign up for the list.

Drupal 7 and 6 include the built-in Update status module, which informs you about important updates to your modules and themes.

Bug reports

Both Drupal 7.x and 6.x branches are being maintained, so given enough bug fixes (not just bug reports) more maintenance releases will be made available, according to our monthly release cycle.

Changelog

Drupal 7.13 only includes fixes for security issues. Drupal 7.14 also includes bugfixes. The full list of changes between the 7.12 and 7.14 releases can be found by reading the 7.14 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable 7.x branch can be found in the git commit log.

Drupal 6.26 only includes bugfixes.

Security vulnerabilities

Drupal 7.13 were released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Details can be found in the official security advisory:

• SA-CORE-2012-002

To fix the security problems, please upgrade to Drupal 7.13.

What is included with each release?

We made two versions of Drupal 7 available, so you can choose to only include security fixes (Drupal 7.13) or security fixes and bugfixes (Drupal 7.14). You can choose your preferred version. We are trying to make it easier and quicker to roll out security updates by making security-only releases available as well as ones with bugfixes included. We hope this helps you roll out the fixes as soon as possible. Read more details in the handbook.

Known issues

- #1558548: Notice: Undefined index: default_image in image_field_prepare_view() - Upgrading from Drupal 7.x to Drupal 7.14 will yield a harmless but annoying PHP notice. Patch has been committed to 7.x-dev, and will be available in 7.15. A workaround in the meantime is visiting the field settings page and saving.
- #1541792: Enable dynamic allowed list values function with additional context - This issue introduced an more context to hook_options_list(). However, because Entity API was calling this hook directly it causes errors such as Warning: Missing argument 2 for taxonomy_options_list() in taxonomy_options_list() (line 1375 of modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module).. Fixed in Entity API module at #1556192: Incorrect invocation of hook_options_list().
- #1171866: Enforced fetching of fields/columns in lowercase breaks third-party integration - This issue accidentally introduced an API change that affected both Migrate and Backup and Migrate modules. Solution for Migrate is to rename tables in scripts back to their proper names. Solution for Backup and Migrate is at #1576812: Could not complete the backup.
- #811542: Regression: Required radios throw illegal choice error when none selected
- #1571104: Can't access non-node entities with EntityFieldQuery

Dying matters is a charity whose focus is around death and bereavement. This meant that Whitefuse had to create a site who would be engaging yet sensitive to the issues that users would have in mind while browsing. We migrated the old site to a new drupal site (facelift to clean up the lines fully included), integrated a dedicated GP area with data capture, and a community based forum.

This is the site I developed for the City On A Hill Church. I was most challenged by the creation of a custom back-end interface, which manages the entire site. It allows to virtually manage site structure, content, site staff, assign permissions for areas of the site, translations, and manage the entire flow of work, just to mention a few.

A snapshot of the back-end (autoplat)
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7223/autoplat.png

Timofey Drozhzhin,
timofey.com

This is the site I developed for the City On A Hill Church. I was most challenged by the creation of a custom back-end interface, which manages the entire site. It allows to virtually manage site structure, content, site staff, assign permissions for areas of the site, translations, and manage the entire flow of work, just to mention a few.

A snapshot of the back-end (autoplat)
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7223/autoplat.png

Timofey Drozhzhin,
timofey.com

The call for papers is still open for DrupalCon Munich -- but only until May 11!  Trainings too! The DrupalCon content team is looking for sessions that cover pushing the boundaries of Drupal and its increasing use as a cross platform system. Help shape what is presented at DrupalCon with this year's theme, "Open Up! Connecting systems and people."

Any proposals for sessions should fit within one of the following tracks:

• Coding and Development
• Community
• Design and Theming
• Business and Strategy
• Site building
• DevOps

To learn more about each topic, view the Session Track page. Here you can find out the anticipated audience and the topic focus, as set forward by each track chair. Selected Sessions and Trainings will be announced May 29.

Curious to learn how sessions are selected at DrupalCon? Learn more about the session selection process.

Core conversations will open for submissions on May 29, read more about Core Conversations on our website.

We are also inviting all organizations with training experience to submit proposals for the Pre-Conference Trainings, to be held on Monday, 20th August 2012.

Open Up - submit your session before May 11!  We look forward to seeing you in Munich August 20-24. Join the Drupal community in Europe this summer and register now for early-bird pricing.

Itomic worked with the State Library of Victoria to develop the National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) website which brings together the national libraries of Australia and New Zealand and the State and Territory libraries of Australia allowing them to work collaboratively on projects to strengthen the information infrastructure in Australia and New Zealand.

Itomic worked with Ninti One to develop the CRC-REP website which is focused on delivering solutions to the economic disadvantage that affects remote Australia. CRC-REP is a partnership organisation of more than 50 members including the Australian Government and four state and territory governments, numerous non-government organisations, universities and other research providers, private businesses and industries from mining, pastoralism and tourism.

We are thrilled to announce that Google will be sponsoring 13 Drupal projects for Summer of Code 2012. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Google, who are investing over $72,000 in the Drupal project.

As always, we had many more projects that we would have liked to accept than we were able to. The mentoring team deliberated fiercely over the past two weeks, and arrived at the final acceptance list.

Drupal will benefit from microdata support for contrib field types, help topic module for documentation team, sales reports integration for drupal commerce, materialization plugin support for views, search api statistics etc.

If you would like to keep up to date on Summer of Code happenings, would like to volunteer to help test students' projects, and/or would like to help students as they find their way in our community, please join the SoC 2012 working group and help out in whatever ways you can.

Here's to another great summer! :)

Application Student Mentors Auto Tagging Articles using Semantic Analysis/ Topic Modelling Arjun Kapur Matt Chapman Enhancing Feedback module (D7) Manu Chaudhary Alex Weber Enhancing Secure Code Review Module Udit Jaggi Michael Hess Extend microdata support to contrib field types Anca Dumitrache Lin Clark Help Topic module for the Drupal Documentation Team and for the help system temaruk Jennifer Hodgdon Improving RESTful Web Services Sebastian (sepgil) klausi Materialization Plugin for Views Dhruv Baldawa Janez Urevc Phone / SMS / VoIP integration with Drupal Commons nitech Leo Burd Port Og_panels to D7 and Improve Message notify to make it the source of email notifications sanjay rohila ezra-g Preparing Menu Block Module for Drupal 8 Core Chad Whitman Dave Reid and John Albin Wilkins Sales Reports for Drupal Commerce Christophe Van Gysel Daniel Wehner Search API Statistics Michael Timofejev Thomas Seidl Translation Management Tools Server Sebastian Siemssen Miro Dietiker

Bugz Family Playpark is one of the best family attractions in Cape Town. It is the largest playpark in Western Cape and has a huge outdoor playground and a magnificent indoor play area. Bugz is famous for hosting outstanding birthday parties for kids.

Site for the Azores First international film festival on migrations and interculturality, the Panazorean International Film Festival.